Pastor: Rev. Charles P. Tichacek

SACRED HEART CHURCH 714 Lincoln Street

Elsberry, Missouri 63343 573-898-2202

Website: www.SacredHeartElsberry.org

Easter Sunday April 12, 2020

www.SacredHeartElsberry.org

MASSES TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED COMMUNION SERVICES

TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED April 13 - April 19

Mon. 7:00 pm NO Mass Tues. 8:00 am NO Mass Thurs. 7:30 am NO Communion Service Fri. 7:30 am NO Communion Service Sun. 8:00 am NO Mass Any Mass intentions that were scheduled during the sus-pension period (which began March 17) will be resched-uled for future dates. If you have specific dates you want for the rescheduled masses, please call the parish office on Tuesdays, from 10:00 - 6:00 pm

YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED There will be NO Masses until further notice. Sorry The parish still needs your financial support. Please mail your contributions to the parish or bring them to the parish office. THANK YOU and continue to drop by or mail in your envelops. Thank you for your generosity.

Need a Priest? Fr. Lydon, Sacred Heart Troy 636-528-8219 or Fr. Rath, Immaculate Conception, Old Monroe 636-661-5002

Pray For Margaret Bartold Terry Martin Joe & Mary Buescher Cecile Mesker Kim Tobiasz Jerry Heitman Nancy McCullough Charlie DeMoulin Jack Burkemper Phyllis Galati Leroy Schramm Eric Mueller Andrew Heitman John C. Shaffer Raymond Geosling Bonnie Kindred Trina Burnette Teresa O’Driscoll Cloyd Bridges Glen Hagemeier The Merriman Family Mike O’Brien Bob Smith Joe Galati Sherrie Galati Bill Lagemann Jimmy Henry Addison Mayes Margaret Lagemann Donna Bange Earl Rolen Bernard Bange Steve Dunlap Vernon Eisenbath Diane DeMoulin Chuck Bull Mary Heitman Makenzie Hagemeier Rose Dwiggins Mary Hagemeier Theresa Keeteman Kaye Byers

TV MASS FOR THE HOMEBOUND KPLR ch. 11 (CW) at 8:30 am & KTVI ch. 2.2 9(antenna TV) at 9:00 am Tune in to 1460 AM `on your radio, or listen on our free Covenant Network app on your mobile device or on our website: ourcatholicra-dio.org Live streaming Masses at SacredHeartTroy.org Live– streaming archstl.org

The Special Intentions of Pope Francis for April Dear Heavenly Father, We pray for everyone who suffers from addiction. Fa-ther, help these your children and accompany them every day. Give us a heart to help them and walk with them as well. We also pray for all deacons. May they be faithful in their service to the Word and the poor and be an invig-orating symbol for the entire Church.

READING FOR April 13 - 19 Monday Acts of the Apostles 2:14, 22-33; Matthew 28:8-15 Tuesday Acts of the Apostles 2:36-41; John 20:11-18 Wednesday Acts of the Apostles 3:1-10; Luke 24:13-35 Thursday Acts of the Apostles 3:11-26; Luke 24:35-48 Friday Acts of the Apostles 4”1-112; John 21:1-14 Saturday Acts of the Apostles 4:13-21; Mark 16:9-15 Sunday Acts of the Apostles 2:42-47; First Letter of St. Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31

Prayer of Spiritual Communion My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I de-sire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot now re-ceive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You have already come, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be sepa-rated from You. Amen. Pray for the end of the COVID 19 Virus • Participate in Mass online • Make a Spiritual communion daily • Pray the rosary daily • Read scripture daily

HE IS RISEN

ALLELUIA ALLELUIA

RESURRECTION On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead

638 “We bring you the good news that what God

promised to the fathers, this day he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus.” The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross:

639 The mystery of Christ’s resurrection is a real

event, with manifestations that were historically veri-fied, as the New Testament bears witness. In about A.D. 56, St. Paul could already write to the Corinthi-ans: “ I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accord-ance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. . .” The Apostle speaks here of the living tradition of the Resurrection which he had learned after his conversion at the gates of Damascus.

The empty tomb 640 “Why do you seek the living among the dead?

He is not here, but has risen.” The first element we encounter in the framework of the Easter events is the empty tomb. In itself it is not a direct proof of Resurrection; the absence of Christ’s body from the tomb could be explained otherwise. Nonetheless the empty tomb was still an essential sign for all. Its dis-covery by the disciples was the first step toward rec-ognizing the very fact of the Resurrection. This was the case, first with the holy women, and then with Peter. The disciple “whom Jesus loved” affirmed that when he entered the empty tomb and discovered “the linen cloths lying there,” “he saw and believed.” This suggests that he realized from the empty tomb’s con-dition that the absence of Jesus’ body could not have been of human doing and that Jesus had not simply returned to earthly life as had been the case with Laz-arus.

The appearances of the Risen One 641 Mary Magdalene and the holy women who

came to finish anointing the body of Jesus, which had been buried in haste because the Sabbath began on the evening of Good Friday, were the first to en-counter the Risen One. Thus the women were the first messengers of Christ’s Resurrection for the apostles themselves. They were the next to whom Jesus appears: first Peter, then the Twelve. Peter had been called to strengthen the faith of his brothers, and so sees the Risen One before them; it is on the basis of his testimony that the community exclaims: “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Si-mon!”

PARISH NEWS CONFESSIONS available by appointment with the pastor. Updates on the Archbishops decision about Mass at archstl.org Hopefully PSR can resume by April 19 Tentative - First Communion April 26. Not sure. Pray for our second graders. Tentative - May Crowning May 3rd.

PREVENT and PROTECT STL The Archdiocese of St. Louis has developed a new system for safe environment compliance called Prevent and Pro-tect STL. Everyone ministering to minors and vulnerable adults (clergy, employees and volunteers) in the Archdio-cese are required and asked to register in the new system before December 31, 2020. This includes those new to service and those who are currently in service. For those who have already attended a Protecting God’s Children workshop, your previous training date will transfer to this new system. If you are new to service you must attend a live Protecting God’s Children workshop. Everyone, whether new to service or currently in service must regis-ter for an updated background screening, view two new online training modules on abuse reporting and the Code of Ethical Conduct, and agree to the updated Code of Eth-ical Conduct. Questions contact Rita 573-898-2202 or 636-327-3639 Directions to navigate the new system can be found on the table by the door in the vestibule or there is a link on the parish website.

The appearances of the Risen One continued 642 Everything that happened during those Paschal days

involves each of the apostles - and Peter in particular - in the building of the new era begun on Easter morning. As witnesses of the Risen One, they remain the foundation stones of his church. The faith of men known to the Chris-tians and for the most part still living among them. Peter and the Twelve are the primary “witnesses to his Resurrec-tion,” but they are not the only ones - Paul speaks clearly of more than five hundred persons to whom Jesus appeared on a single occasion and also of James and of all the apos-tles.

643 Given all these testimonies, Christ’s Resurrection

cannot be interpreted as something outside the physical order, and it is impossible not to acknowledge it as an his-torical fact. It is clear from the facts that the disciples’ faith was drastically put to the test by their master’s Passion and death on the cross, which he had foretold. The shock pro-voked by the Passion was so great that at least some of the disciples did not at once believe in the news of the Resur-rection. Far from showing us a community seized by a mystical exaltation, the Gospels present us with disciples demoralized (looking sad”) and frightened.